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Amy-Jill Levine 13 December 2018 Amy-Jill Levine University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies Professor of New Testament Studies Divinity School and College of Arts and Science Vanderbilt University 411 21st Ave. S. Nashville, TN 37240 615-343-3967 (office) 615-343-9957 (fax) [email protected] ** Affiliated Professor Woolf Institute: Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations 12-14 Grange Road Cambridge CB3 9DU [email protected] Education: Smith College, Northampton, MA, B.A. (Magna cum Laude; High Honors in English and Religion), 1978. Duke University, Durham, NC, M.A. (Religion), 1981. Master's Thesis: "Universalism and Exclusivity: The Matthean Program of Salvation." Director: D. Moody Smith. Duke University, Durham, NC, Ph.D. (Religion), 1984. Dissertation: "The Matthean Program of Salvation History: A Contextual Analysis of the Exclusivity Logia." Director: D. Moody Smith. NEH Summer Institute, participant. Judaism and the Liberal Arts. Brown University, 1988; review conference, 1989. Honors, Fellowships, Grants: University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, Doctor of Divinity (hon.), 2003. Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, TX, Doctor of Humane Letters (hon.), 2008. University of South Carolina-Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, Doctor of Religious Education (hon.), 2009. Drury University, Springfield, MO, Doctor of Humane Letters (hon.), 2010. Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN, Doctor of Humane Letters (hon.), 2011. Franklin College, Franklin, IN, Doctor of Divinity (hon.), 2015. --- NEH Assessment Committee: Religion and Asian Studies, 2018 --- Board of Electors to the Lady Margaret’s Professorship of Divinity, Cambridge University (2017-18). --- Levine 2 Invitation, plenary, 7th Annual Parliament of the Word’s Religions (Toronto, 2018), Women’s Assembly (declined with regret). --- Association for Jewish Studies, Distinguished Lectureship Faculty (2015-19). --- Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting (2015): Panel discussion, sponsored by the Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts: Short Stories by Jesus (Nov. 2015). --- Associated Church Press, Best of Christian Press Awards, 2012: Award of Excellence (first place), “A Jewish Take on Jesus” by Amy-Jill Levine and U.S. Catholic Editors, 2012. --- American Jewish Committee and St. Leo University Center for Catholic Jewish Studies, Tampa, FL, Eternal Light Award (March, 2009) --- Smith College, Medalist (Feb. 2007) --- Who is My Neighbor – starred review, Forward Reviews (Jan./Feb. 2019). Marvelous Mustard Seed – 2018 Junior Library Guild (JLG) List. Who Counts - 2017 Junior Library Guild (JLG) List. Short Stories By Jesus – Catholic Book Club February Selection, “America, the National Catholic Review” (Feb. 2015). The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus– Publisher’s Weekly Best Books of 2007. Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Week us: endorsed by the United Methodist Church (2018). Light of the World: A Beginner’s Guide to Advent: endorsed by the United Methodist Church (2018). --- Mentoring Award, Society of Biblical Literature, Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (2001) --- "Jesus Who?” Moment (Aug. 2002) selected for Best Jewish Writing 2003 (Jossey-Bass) --- Birmingham University, 2014 Cadbury Lectures, Birmingham UK, Nov./Dec. 2014. Murdoch University, International Theologian 2013, Perth, WA, Australia (July/August, 2013) Woolf Institute, Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Wesley College, Cambridge University, UK, Sabbatical (spring, 2011). Catholic Biblical Association, Visiting Scholar to the Philippines (Summer, 2004) University of Glasgow, Alexander Robertson Fellow (Dec. 2001) -- National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant for College Teachers (1992-93). American Council of Learned Societies Grant (1992-93). Swarthmore: Faculty Summer Research Grant (87, 91); Brand Blanchard Faculty Fellowship (88-89); Faculty Advisor, Junior NEH Summer Research Grant Advisor (1990, 1992 [2 students]); Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Research Chair (1993-95). Duke: G. H. Kearns Fellowship (78-81); Tuition Scholarship (82); W. D. Davies Levine 3 Instructorship in Biblical Studies (82-83); Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (83-84). Smith: Phi Beta Kappa; Foote Prize, Biblical Studies, First Group Scholar (75-78). -- Leuven (KU Leuven) junior research professors (junior BOFZAP) candidate assessment (Dec. 2018). National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant Evaluations (Religion and Asian Studies), July 2018. ACLS Prescreener, 1994-95, 1995-96, 96-97. NEH Younger Scholars Program grant evaluations panel, 1994. NEH Summer Institute Faculty: "The Image and Reality of Women in Ancient Near Eastern Societies." Brown University, July 1995. Books: The Social and Ethnic Dimensions of Matthean Salvation History: "Go Nowhere Among the Gentiles" (Matt 10:5b). Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity 14. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. James H. Charlesworth, with James Mueller, assisted by Amy-Jill Levine, Randall Chesnutt, and M. J. H. Charlesworth. The New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha: A Guide to Publications, with Excursuses on Apocalypses. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006; paperback 2007; books on tape, 2017). Bruce Chilton, Howard Clark Kee, Amy-Jill Levine, Eric M. Meyers, John Rogerson, and Anthony J. Saldarini, The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, 2d edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007): Part Two: Jewish Responses to Greek and Roman Cultures, 322 B.C.E. to 200 C.E. Douglas A. Knight and Amy-Jill Levine, The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and the Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2011). Warren Carter and Amy-Jill Levine, The New Testament, Methods and Meanings (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2013) Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2014; paperback 2015; Spanish edition: Relatos cortos de Jesús: Las parabolas enigmáticas de un rabino polémios (Navarre: Verbo Divino, 2016); books on tape, 2017. Amy-Jill Levine and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, 2 Sons (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2017). Amy-Jill Levine and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, ¿Quién cuenta? 100 ovejas, 10 monedas y 2 hijos (Louisville: Flyaway Books, 2017); Korean translation (Louisville: Flyaway Books, 2019). Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington III, The Gospel of Luke, New Cambridge Bible Commentaries (Cambridge: University Press, 2018). Amy-Jill Levine and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, The Marvelous Mustard Seed (Louisville: Westminster John Knox/Flyaway Books, 2018). Short Stories by Jesus Study Guide, Abingdon Study Guides (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018). Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Week, Abingdon Study Guides Levine 4 (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2019). Amy-Jill Levine and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Who is My Neighbor? (Louisville: Flyaway Books, 2019). Light of the World: A Beginner’s Guide to Advent, Abingdon Study Guides (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2019). --- Does G-d Hate Women? (San Francisco: HarperOne, contract) Jesus for Atheists (San Francisco: HarperOne, contract) An Essential Guide To Second Temple Judaism (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, contract). Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler: Prophecy Then and Now (working title: HarperOne) -- Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, and A.-J. Levine (eds.). Religious Writings and Religious Systems. Systemic Analysis of Holy Books in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Greco- Roman Religions, Ancient Israel, and Judaism. Vol. I: Islam, Buddhism, Greco-Roman Religions, Ancient Israel, and Judaism. Atlanta: Scholars Press for Brown Studies in Religion, BSR 1, 1989. Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, and A.-J. Levine (eds.). Religious Writings and Religious Systems. Systemic Analysis of Holy Books in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Greco- Roman Religions, Ancient Israel, and Judaism. Vol. II: Christianity. Atlanta: Scholars Press for Brown Studies in Religion, BSR 2, 1989. Amy-Jill Levine (ed.), "Women Like This." New Perspectives on Jewish Women in the Greco-Roman World. Early Judaism and its Literature 1. Atlanta: GA: Scholars Press/Society of Biblical Literature, 1991 [American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS History E-Book Project, 2006]. Editor: Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings series. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield University Press; New York/London: Continuum; Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press. Matthew (2001) [ed. with Marianne Blickenstaff] Una Compañera para Mateo [Bilbao: Desclée De Brouwer, 2004]) Mark (2001) [ed. with Marianne Blickenstaff] Una Compañera para Marcos [Bilbao: Desclé De Brouwer, 2005]) Luke (2002) [ed. With Marianne Blickenstaff] John I (2003) [ed. With Marianne Blickenstaff] John II (2003) [ed. With Marianne Blickenstaff] Paul (2004) [ed. With Marianne Blickenstaff] Deutero-Paul (2003) [ed. 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